Vehicle-wheel tire.



G. G. DEMING.

VEHICLE WHEEL TIRE. APPLICATION FILED 1330.22, 1908.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911.-

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i/Vi in zoom CHARLES GAYLORD DEMING, or s mActisnnEw YORK.

VEHICLE-WHEEL TIRE."

" Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented Feb. 14, 1911,."

i Application filed December 22, 1908. Serial No. 468,760.

l flit all whom it may concern: 7 i

p for useon automobiles Be it'known that I, CHAnLEsG. DEMING,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Syracuse,'in the county of Onondagaand State of New'York, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in VehiclelVheel ,Tires, of which the followingis aspecification, a

. Myinvent-ion relates to tires for vehicle wheels of all kinds'and is especially adapted Itis resilient, non-puncturable, strong and durable. It is also simple in construction and o'f-low-cost; f, w 7 The accompanying drawing illustrates a .preferredform of the invention, in which 7 Figure-1 18 a side elevation of approxiside View of a tread plate. elevation of a metal block;

mately, the upper one half of awheelfitted with my tire. Fig. 2- is a' cross-section, en-

larged, on line of Fig. 1, the rim bolt and hub not being in section. Fig. 3 is a andFig. 5- is a side new of a portion of the rim. Figs. 3, 4'and 5, are drawn on the same scale as Fig. 2. l

The letter A designates the hub of a vehicle wheel and a, a, the spokes thereof; These parts are made of any preferred materials. Y

B is the telly of the wheel preferably madeof wood and having a metal band 6,

on its outer face. It is secured to the spokes l 1 e, engaged bythe flanges c, c, on the rim in any preferred way.

C is the outer rim of the wheel or tire, and D, (Z515? denote respectively, the-inner, the

mediate and the outer stays. arranged in angular form, between the felly B and the rim C, and tightly secured to those parts. The rim C has the'mchned flanges c, 0.

" E, E, are'short, thin cross plates, standing edgewise on'thc rim C, and'having recesses These plates I) are inserted in the rim through an opening a in a flange c of the dim, andthen' moved along into operative position. At eaehhole c is a steel block 1 ofthe same length and. breadth as the plates E butseverabtlmes tlncker, and also having recesses f, to engage the flanges c on the run,

. but with the innersides f of said recesses made vertical in order that said block may nbe lifted up directly" from the. rim. Each steel block hasQa' bolt'hole and abolt' j" therein. The head of the bolt f 'is countersunk in the outer face of the block F, and its and tread and similar vehicles.

Fig. 4 is a side,

body, .threaded at its f artherend, asses through the rim C, a wooden block with a nut' f, by which all'these parts, are tightly drawn to ,'e'th er.'-- The rim 0 is preferably corrugations on the rim, to insure as't'able connection between these parts; '1

The recesses e, e, in plates E, and therecesses f, f, in blocks through the bottoms of those parts, leaving the lower corners of the intact. The lower outer corners therefore, of

the: stay (1 and a clamp H, and isiproviided 'F, are cut entirely corrugated, as are also the blocks F plates E, sothey may engagethe plates and-blocks v these parts, extend outwardly over. the:

flanges c, c, and downwardly to the level of the bottom of therim C, on which these parts rest. Thus. the lower edges'of these plates and blocks are in line, and the blocks.

entirely cover the openings 0 .in the rim.

'By thiseonstruction, the bolting on of side plates or openings is ayoided, both in trouble and sections of rim, to cover the ,rim

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The wooden blocks G may be partially incased in a thin metal covering g, to prevent the splitting of the blocks. These blocks G, are intended to distribute somewhat the strain upon the angles of the stays, and so prevent the breaking of the stays. The. clamps H, co -act with the wooden blocksto' support the stays and to relieve the strain at the stay angles, beingof a triangular shape .and having the angle in contactwith the stay, rounded off. Each stay is an endlesssteel band and approximatelyone eighth of an inch thick. The angles of stay a being secured as described, each angle of the stayd is secured to stay (l midway between its angles, by means of a bolt L'havmg a broad head i, bearing upon the outer surface of' stay (1 the shaft'of thebolt passing through stay (1, a wooden block G, the stay (l, and

the clamp H, these parts being bound together by the nut' f as above described. The anglesof stay D are secured to stay (1 in the same manner that'stay d is seciii-Ed'fto d", The stay D issecured-to the felly by an anchor shaped bolt K whose arms In 'embracev .the fclly. The bolt is threaded and'provided with'a nut to bind the stay securely in; place. These stays when set in posit-ion are;

flexiblev to a degree, as permitted by their connections and afford a resilient support to the weight that comes upon them through the hub A. Thetread plates are very durag I I 983,880

ble and ield slightly inconnection with the rim. to tlG ressureupon them.

Any pre erred numberof-stjuys may be used and they maybe formed with more or of thin plates having. upwardly inclined recesses in their bottomsto engage said flanges and adapted to beQinserted in said rim through said openings, tread blocks having upwardly inclined recesses in their bottoms nly, the inner sides of said recesses being vertical said blocks being adapted to be fit- I 'ted directly into said rim and to cover said openings therein, said rim having corfingatrons en a' ed b corriwat-ions on said )latesand-blocks and radial-bolts whose heads are countersunk in the outer faces of said blocks and which extend directly throu 11 said blocks and 'said rim to hold said b oclts in osition as s )ecified.

In testimony whereofl ailix my signziturc in presence of two witnesses CHARLES GAYLORD DEMINGQ Witnesses:

'- FANNY L. PELTIE, J0HN W. SADLER. 

